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The inside of TK’s Pub and Grill is like a lot of bars: dark, with a few pool tables and rock and roll playing through the speakers.

Off to one side is a small group of about a dozen people, sipping beers and sharing baskets of nachos and wings. They’re here on a Tuesday night to celebrate the first year of Trump’s presidency on the anniversary of his election.

Evan Wright is one of them. He’s a 20-year-old student at the University of Louisville, the chair of the school’s Republican group. He’s also a big Trump supporter, and was here at TK’s a year ago, well after midnight, when Trump won.

Over at the bar, Jeff Klusmeier orders a shot and a beer. The mix does the body good, he said.

Klusmeier helped run the unofficial Trump headquarters next door to the bar during the presidential campaign.

He’s been a political junkie since the early 1990s and said Trump’s election is good for politics. Despite the president’s divisiveness, Klusmeier said he’s good for the GOP too, even if he ends up splitting the party.

“I want things to be in flux, I want to shake things up,” he said. “You have to make it uncomfortable for people.”

Klusmeier said yes, following along with the president gets a little exhausting, with Trump’s tweets and fights and reality TV mentality.

“But if people see their 401(k)s grow, and the economy is good and unemployment is down, they’re not going to care,” he said.

He said he fully expects Trump to be a two term president — and after that, who knows, maybe Ivanka Trump will run, maybe Jared Kushner.

“We’ll have another dynasty,” Klusmeier said.

He took his shot and grabbed his beer and joined the others. They talked politics for a while longer and looked ahead to three more years, at least, of a Donald Trump presidency.